Example Summary: The essay by Roger Sipher talks about the abolition of the compulsory attendance laws in primary and secondary schools. Roger Sipher believes that the decline in standardized test scores is because there are students who do not wish to go to school but are forced into it. He makes his argument by stating that those who do not want to learn pollute the class environment and don’t allow the school to enable any disciplinary policies. Public schools are also required to pass these student and their grades would not reflect their aptitude. Public schools could concentrate on educating the students who really want to learn and would save a lot of money if the compulsory attendance laws were removed.

 Example Paraphrase:Roger Sipher says that these laws have allowed recalcitrant students to graduate high school without doing any work or learning anything of value.

Example Quotation: Roger Sipher’s believes that “Schools should be for education . At present they are only tangentially so”(Page 3)